This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. So far we’ve created a world and filled it with lots of interesting things. Now we’re going to create our player and provide ways for the…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 2: The World Space
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. All games take place in some sort of world. The world can be as simple as a chess board or as complex as the Mass Effect…
How to Write a Text Adventure in Python Part 1: Items and Enemies
This is an abbreviated version of the book Make Your Own Python Text Adventure. Typically, a text adventure game involves the player exploring and interacting with a world to tell a story. For this tutorial, I wanted the game to…
Parallel File Reading: Python vs Java
Given a set of files, I wanted to see how Python and Java would perform in both single- and multi- threaded environments. As a simple task, I chose to just count up the number of bytes in a given file…
How to Hide Text in a BMP using Python
This picture of presidential cat Socks is not what it seems.In addition to being a cat, it also contains the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By manipulating the image data and the…